Brawl: Julia Kadioglu was apparently arrested but her lawyer said she did nothing wrong and is 'indignant she was even arrested'

A banker friend of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge has been involved in a vicious bar brawl at a New York nightclub that led to his girlfriend being arrested.

Till Bechtolsheimer was allegedly shoved by reveller Daniel Kurkowski after he accidentally bumped into him on the dancefloor.

Mr Bechtolsheimer’s girlfriend Julia Kadioglu is alleged to have retaliated by smashing a bottle of Stella Artois lager over Mr Kurkowski’s head, leaving him with a nasty gash.

Miss Kadioglu was apparently arrested and led
away in handcuffs but her lawyer said she did nothing wrong and is
‘indignant she was even arrested.’

The
32-year-old is said to have been defending the honour of investment
banker Mr Bechtolsheimer, who is the grandson of Karl-Heinz
Kipp, the billionaire owner of the German department store chain Massa.

The
Kipp family are close friends of Prince William and The Duchess of
Cambridge and last year the Royal couple attended the wedding in the
Swiss Alps of Till’s sister Laura, who won a gold medal in dressage for
Britain at the London 2012 Olympics.

The incident happened late on Saturday night - according to the criminal complaint filed at the Manhattan Criminal Court the assault took place at 4.15am on Sunday the 19th of January.

On its website the Dream Hotel says that the Electric Room, which is underneath the Dream Hotel, is designed by New York night life impresario Nur Khan.

It is described as an 'intimate room' for some 100 people with a 'distinct cool Britannia feel' with sofas that have the Union Flag on them and Banksy artwork on the walls.

Trouble: Till Bechtolsheimer (pictured) was allegedly shoved by reveler Daniel Kurkowski after he accidentally bumped into him and his girlfriend is alleged to have retaliated by smashing a bottle over Mr Kurkowski's head

Wedding: Kate, William and Harry attended the Swiss society wedding of polo player Mark Tomlinson to Olympic gold medallist Laura Bechtolsheimer in March last year

The club was described by the New York
Times as one of the 'toughest' doors in the city to get into because it
is so exclusive and said that it came alive at 3am when it was 'teeming
with women built for sunbathing in Sardinia and men who could invite
them there'.

Cocktails
such as the Twisted Monarch go for $18 and celebrities who have been
known to hang out there include Mick Jagger and Courtney Love.

A
spokesman for the NYPD told MailOnline that officers from the 10th
precinct in Manhattan arrived 15 minutes after the incident and arrested
Miss Kadioglu.

The
spokesman said that it did not appear that Mr Kurkowski was taken to
hospital because of his injuries and was apparently treated at the
scene.

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He said: ‘It seems like a dispute in a bar and the young lady decided to involve a glass bottle’.

According
to the criminal complaint Miss Kadioglu did ‘strike Mr Kurkowski about
the back of the his head with a green glass Stella Artois beer bottle,
causing Mr Kurkowski to sustain a laceration and bleeding to the back of
his head, and also causing him to suffer substantial pain’.

She has been charged with second degree assault for the alleged attack with a ‘dangerous instrument’.

Calls to Mr Bechtolsheimer at his office and to Mr Yu went unreturned.

Miss Kadioglu is said to have been defending the honour of investment
banker Mr Bechtolsheimer, whose sister Laura is pictured on her wedding day last year. Till is the grandson of billionaire Karl-Heinz
Kipp

Miss
Kadioglu, who is British, attended St Andrews University at the same
time as Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge, though it is not
clear if they knew each other.

She
appears to have moved to New York recently and is working as a vice
president of the derivatives and structured products arm of HSBC.

According to her Facebook page, Miss Kadioglu is a keen runner and fitness fanatic and appears to have competed in a number of triathlons.

She also has attended a number of society events in Manhattan.

Mr Bechtolsheimer is boss of Arosa Capital Management, his own investment company, and lives in New York.

The row that led to his girlfriend’s
arrest is said to have taken place in the Electric Room nightclub in the
Dream Hotel in the Meatpacking district on January 19, a Sunday night

Miss Kadioglu, who is British, attended St Andrews University at the same time as Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge - pictured back on their graduation day in 2005